"German Police locate McDonalds restaurant"
"Leftovers were ecologically removed from the dustbin".
In other words, there seem to be more complications, especially with those birds raised on frozen&reheated day-old chicks.
German cops have recruited three vultures which they reckon could prove handy in locating corpses, the BBC reports. The trio of airborne detectives – dubbed Columbo, Miss Marple and Sherlock – have just completed a training exercise at the Weltvogelpark (World Bird Park) Walsrode in Lower Saxony, in which a delicious "piece of …
Being the scavengers that they are (the vultures, not the cops), I fear the German police might end up finding far more road kill and discarded picnic sandwiches than corpses.
As for eating the evidence, that's easy, you just need a remote detonator button, and some spare vultures (I suspect they might have already thought of this idea given that they have 3).